New Themes: Shaan and Adventure Journal

November 24, 2011

Lance Willett

I’m happy to introduce two new cool and colorful themes: Shaan and Adventure Journal.

Shaan is a smooth-talking theme, quietly delivering a cool, casual backdrop for your content. It’s perfect for writers who like a calm, quiet tone to their blog. If you use images to illustrate your writing, you’ll like how Shaan displays featured images in two sizes: small in archives and search results, and large for sticky posts on your home page as well as on single posts and pages.

Have a well-traveled blog? Adventure Journal is a natural fit for highlighting your adventures. A theme for your next trip. Or your next blog.

Example of the Adventure Journal front page.

Featuring a warm wood background, a header image for your favorite photo, widget areas styled on curling paper, and a crinkled sticky post area for those important notes—this theme is full of rustic charm. Customize it with layout options, sidebar and footer widgets, and more. See all the options and details on the Theme Showcase.

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Well, though these themes are not suited for me, I am sure a lot of travel bloggers will find the second one to be a great fit for their blogs. Meanwhile, I still wait for a free, good magazine type blog theme with a lot of white space for my main blog.

Cheers to the Theme team for their great work in bringing more and more options to wordpress users.

Thanks for adding Adventure Journal. Though I’m not a travel blogger many others are and some requested this theme. I like Shaan’s calm appearance and the feature image options too. The fact that there are small featured images in archives and search results will be well received as some bloggers have been seeking that feature.

I like the scrapbook look of Adventure Journal, and the way you’ve made the photos stand out almost in 3D – it’s really creative and unusual. So pleased that you’re making more themes available!

I am still hoping for more *free* magazine-style themes, with options for featured posts, featured images, featured headers, custom menus, layout choices, different fonts, and a homepage where I can highlight some featured posts.

The premium magazine-style themes are *gorgeous* – so far, none of the free themes come even close to looking so beautiful and polished. I’m hoping they will soon!

Everyone of themes are awesome. Every theme is just meant to be for art bloggers. There is rare themes for technology and news bloggers. So, we the technology bloggers are requesting to create effective theme for technology sites. thank you for the above creation!!!

I love Adventure Journal, but not the brown background. I changed it to white, but feel that the dark vignetting at the sides is too wide. It would be nicer if it was still there to frame the page, only thinner.